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: any of various large wading birds (family Ciconiidae) chiefly of Asia, Africa, and South America that have long stout bills and are related to the ibises and herons
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Wood storks are long-legged, wading birds that can stand more than 4-feet tall when fully-grown.
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Drew Kann, ajc, 18 Sep. 2023
Among the 21 artists are Julia Chon and Dave Young Kim, who offer cleanly hard-edge paintings of, respectively, a woman in traditional garb and two storks below two strands of barbed wire.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
There’s a lion, a tiger, a camel, a stork — even a sea monster.
—WSJ, 14 June 2023
The birds are listed as threatened across their range, but earlier this year, the FWS proposed delisting the storks in Georgia and across the Southeast, citing the successful rebound of breeding populations in the region.
—Drew Kann, ajc, 18 Sep. 2023
The researchers have drawn a parallel to modern-day storks and cranes, which wade through aquatic areas.
—Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
Most kept a reasonable distance, but the storks pressed up to the front line in search of easy prey.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2023
In this shot, Friedländer captures two white storks behind the blaze, their appearances blurred as heat rises from the flames in the foreground.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
The Safari Park received its first milky storks in 2016, with the zoo later also receiving storks.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2023
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Drew Kann, ajc, 18 Sep. 2023
Among the 21 artists are Julia Chon and Dave Young Kim, who offer cleanly hard-edge paintings of, respectively, a woman in traditional garb and two storks below two strands of barbed wire.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
There’s a lion, a tiger, a camel, a stork — even a sea monster.
—WSJ, 14 June 2023
The birds are listed as threatened across their range, but earlier this year, the FWS proposed delisting the storks in Georgia and across the Southeast, citing the successful rebound of breeding populations in the region.
—Drew Kann, ajc, 18 Sep. 2023
The researchers have drawn a parallel to modern-day storks and cranes, which wade through aquatic areas.
—Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
Most kept a reasonable distance, but the storks pressed up to the front line in search of easy prey.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2023
In this shot, Friedländer captures two white storks behind the blaze, their appearances blurred as heat rises from the flames in the foreground.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
The Safari Park received its first milky storks in 2016, with the zoo later also receiving storks.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2023
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: any of various large mostly African and Asian wading birds that have long stout bills and are related to the herons and ibises
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